Opinions of Wednesday, 25 February 2004

Columnist: Fukuor, J. A.

Letter from the President: Power Frustrations

Countrymen and women, against people and bootlicking loyalists,
I made a solemn pledge to myself never to write to you about electricity supply in our country. For many months, I was tempted but I tried never to break my resolve. But now, my friends, I am beginning to feel guilty about the fact that I have irresponsibly turned a blind eye to a serious aberration which threatens the success of my well thought out initiatives to woo investors into our country.

The power fluctuations (or frustrations) in this country are too much. Hardly a week passes by without an outage in one neighbourhood or the other. The regularity of the power outages in our country is of such headline-making criminal proportions that if a very good journalist took it upon himself to investigate, we would be able to bring a few people to justice.